Freud's essay on "The Uncanny" can be said to have defined, for our century, what literary criticism once called the Sublime. ████ ████████████ ██ █ ██████ ██ ██ █ ████████████ █████ ██ ███████████████████████ ██ ██████████ ██ █████ █████████ ██ ██████ ████ ██ ████ ████ █████████ ███████ ██ █████ ████████████ ██ ████████ ███ ██ ██ █████ ██████████ █████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ████████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ ████████████ ██ █████████ ████ ███ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███ ███ ██ ██ ███████ █████ ████ ███ ███████ ██████ ███ ███████ ███ █████ █ ██████ ██ █████████ ███████████ ██ ███ █████████ ███ ██ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ ███████ ██████████ █████ ██████ ███████████
Intro to Topic ·Freud's Sublime / uncanny
The Sublime is a sense of transcendence. We associate it with the uncanny. Mind over matter. Repression. I'm just going to pretend like I understand what Freud's talking about, like everyone else...
Bettelheim ·Fairy tales can be therapeutic for autistic children
Because a child's isolation, loneliness, and anxieties are addressed by fairy tales. When parents tell fairy tales to children, they are approving the fairy tales. Okay... wtf does this have to do with Freudian analysis? Are we just talking about something else now?
Bettelheim's Assumptions ·1. Children will interpret a story benignly and 2. Freudian interpretations will accurately represent children't interpretations
Passage Style
Single position
25.
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Question Type
Stated
How children interpret stories comes up in P5. Bettelheim assumes that interpreting a story benignly (i.e., in a positive way) allows children to find solutions to their troubles.
a
find in fairy █████ ███████ ██ █████ ███ █████
Stated. Bettelheim assumes that children interpret stories benignly and concludes that they’re able to use those stories to find answers to their own needs.
b
do not associate █████ █████ ████ ███ ███████
Unsupported. Freud is the one who doesn’t associate fairy tales with the uncanny. Bettelheim doesn’t offer any take on the uncanny, and he doesn’t suggest that children have any take on the uncanny, either.
c
do not find ██████████ ████████ ██ █████ █████
Anti-supported. Bettelheim assumes that interpreting a story benignly allows children to find solutions to their troubles, suggesting that they do find underlying meanings in fairy tales.
d
are aware that █████ █████ ███ ████████
Unsupported. Bettelheim doesn’t offer any take on whether, or how, children can tell that fairy tales are fictional.
e
are reassured by ████████ ████████
Unsupported. The only thing Bettelheim says about parental approval is that when parents show their approval of fairy tales, it supports children in using those fairy tales to find solutions to their troubles. In other words, interpreting a story benignly and getting parental approval of the story each causally contribute to how children use those stories to find solutions. But interpreting a story benignly doesn’t do anything to trigger a parent’s approval or reassurance.
Difficulty
86% of people who answer get this correct
This is a moderately difficult question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%133
146
75%159
Analysis
Stated
Science
Single position
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
86%
169
b
6%
167
c
3%
159
d
3%
162
e
2%
163
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